Re: Tainting kernels for non-GPL or forced modules

From: John Levon (moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 13:10:39 EST

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On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 01:00:24PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:

> The reason I ask is because I'm working on a closed-source (unfortunately)
> driver for Linux, and I'd really like to make it behave as well as possible.

add to your module code :

MODULE_LICENSE("TabiPL");

(or whatever it is).

That way the kernel maintainers can ignore any bugs reported with your module
loaded easily.

regards
john

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